The Sun. — London, England, 1808-05-21 00:00:00

A 4 . , ••• • , . • Tin THTS,NDANT IGPNEVAL OF TAR -POLICE OF THIS KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL, fo VW aMy to. att beo're Of his Ercellency the Duke D'ABR ANTES, Gefieralin Cltiqf qt . the Army of Porker/4 dated the 51/i of April 1808, orders follow (ABSTRACT). Before the (20tfi of the present month, the - proper officers shall deliver in a correct list of all the indi viduals of their respective districts who disappeared at the same time with the Ancient Court, and Owe who have since tied. All those who have since that time departed with out passport or regular permission, shall be consider- Od, unless satisfafotory proof be adduced to the coti 0 14, as having deserted to the enemy's squadron, and shall consequently be inscribed on the list of Conspirators. Alter the soth of the present month, the time peremptorily fixed for the returns, orders will be given tor the sequestration of the property of such persons. .All proprietors of houses, in which those persons resided wh.k Late fled, shall give information of the !me, with the datefot their flight, to the Corregi "cr, B rc. The same. obligation is imposed on those who inhabit the bunks, or have the care ot. the pro perty of the persona who have fled, aptin pain of being considered as having intentionally secreted the • Pro Party destined to be sequestered. • All communication being forbidden between Por tugal and the vessels belonging to the English Squa dron, all persons are enjoined, by whatever means he tray obtain - from the said Squadron, any papers, let ters, pretended tu:larnations, or other communica-.. tons, to deliver theta ithtntdiately to. the Intendant General of the Police, under pain of, being consider ed an Agent of ,the k,uglish, and arrested as such. The same disposition is applicable to all individu- Ills w in shall hawk to th e Exchange, or other pub , . lie places, pretended news derived from the said • Squadro n , un l ess they specify the source from whence they derived it, or the persons from whom they ob tained it. T. ere is opened.at the Hotel of the .Inetulant General of the Police, Place de Rocio, an office for receiving information against those who may at tampt to escape to the enemy, against the proprietors of boats Who shall convey them, against spies and their abettors, and tor the payment of such rewards to such persons whose information in these respeCts ' lboald pr , ;ve cOr.rea. The present to be duly published,. ikc..PAc. P. LAGAttov, Intendant General of the Police of the Kingdom of Portugal. Liston?, dpril 7, 1508. Ashelq, Apart. .5.-Authentic letters received . Vont Paris on Sa tur d a y l ast , ment i on , t h a t his Ex - e:eilency General JUNoT, Commander Ctiitt, had. peen exalted by the EMPEROR aid KING, to the dignity of Marquis Of ABEANTES, and that his E*- tvllttiey Ow the title in future. The choice of thls name, truly historical, not only appeared dett th*d as a recompence for great services, and to con %crate the tn,rnory of one of the must painful and "rprising marches through the road of Abrantes, r t uuntering every obstacle ; but Ole Portuguese oa v e likewise seen ; with the m os t' lively sattsla! the same choice, anew bond between their 0,7, 4 , 1 4 and the Illustrious Warrior that governs it ` i i ) e name of the Ruler of Europe), with so much in i t 4 jl e i„" ce a nd fi rmness. Therefore, as soon as this b• "- b eu cc: hecahre public, all classes of the inba . itat.ts endedvi with the French army in showing their rsatistattion, and wish •to congratulate his 1 1 1 ;,„ c ; e1 , 1 ency on the occasion ; and with this view t ' the ',Wit's, both military and civil, and persons ter distinaion, assembled at the head-guar ; rs. The sight of so many witnesses of public j t ? °news how touch the -Portuguese feel indebted 4 , ale hero, w h ose rapid and necessary-arr i va l itt ~`,l4vee time of th e flight of the ancient Court, de ' red them trotu the horrors of anarchy and de- Itrutt . LAID REPORT. Ilstior OF LOIkIDON,stOURT, DOCTORS' COM MONS, MAY 20. 11011. (13111.14AiEsri's rEoCCIRATOa) v. sToNE. lits day the Rev., Francis Stone, Redor o f Nor in• Essex, was called upon by the Court (Sir., tt SCoTT) agreeable to its directions, to apPear A nd revoke his .er ror , f or ha v i ng preache d' a sermon at t he Parish Church of Danbury, before the Arch rayon of the Diocese, Wherein he maintained doe-. o r r i t :', contrary to the established Jaw of the Church n i,"Zland, by denying the Lioly Trinity, the Divi 1, ~t our Lord and Saviour, and the atonement by 4 l b e i ath of Christ. • 4Z GIATRAII of .the Court then ~read a written pi t - ) siZned by Mr. Stone, to the following ,puir -6,, t ** -- That he was nut aware, by preachingi • That zai„ fore the Archdeacon, he was offe nd ing . a G„„ - :`•,,me At} of Por;iatnelit passed in the reign of •fi rAillibeth that he was well persuaded that hie Ordaining Bishop aothoriied him to preach as f e e _lid/ and that he promised and engaged not to of -4" again in like manner. It was contended by the ti l i ar"e4Cnv itialts, on the part of the prosecution, st thi 4 was no revocation of rman's e rror. the - Reverend Gentle t- Reverend Mr. STUNS then addressed the flit t ., 4 some length, the t e nor of which rather at% -. ,T'" and maintained such doCtrine instead of being vocatio n of it. pbs Court was• of opinion, it was not in its wer 3 toaccept this written paper, or this verbal de sri-dr!,'" of Mr. Stone, as a revocation of his error, c:,,nerefore direaed the Registrar to enter upon re v—r(l4 that Mr. Stone had declined to revoke his er - . t o d r ! antf persisted therein. The Court then inform. d ie Reverend Mr. Stone, that the sentence of de. pri vatio vese n must be passed by the Bishop of the Dio -1 agreeable to the ,Canon Law. e OL ,: e Nshop of . Lospobt and the Bishop of LlN ear accorn pooled by other dignified Clergy, then `• the Cour t , an d a f ter b e i ng i nforme d b y Si r R e ; core that -ti le charges alledged against the dishvraticis Stone were clearly proved and esta- L ov e d by the eviderke produced, the Bishop of pruetled to read the sentence, and after.. st ;r 4 _us sigtied the same, which deprived the Rev. Mr.• " Obi- Ecc e6iastical Pie-et-went% litlt 1 LL I 4 .1. j Z 1 'HOUSE OF PEEO. FRIDAY, 2.IAY • Mr: Clerk was again heard in !be RoxbUrgh • cause, and the LORD 'CHANCELLOR intimated that • he wotild to-morrow' appoint the hour for the Colin sel'to attend on Monday. • Mr: MELLIsH, and several Members frOm the Commons, brought up the Tanners and furriers Ilegulation Bills, and four private Bills, which Werd read the first time. U'EMYSS V. KEI%. This 'Appeal came on tor judgment. Lord LAIY DBRDALE, in a speech of considerable length, argued in behalf of the Appellant, and made a motion to reverse the interlocutor. The Loan CHANCELLOR opposed the motion, and it was negatived without a division.. The judgment was then affirmed, subjea to several alterations pro posed by the Lord Chancellor.--Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MAY 20. Sir SAMUEL, ROMILLY brought in his Bill for mak ing compensation to persons confined and brought to trial for criminal offences, and found innocent. — Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. The Tanners' Bill was read a third time and passed. The Lunatics Bill went through a Committee.. — The Report was received, and the Bill ordered to be recommitted on Thursday next. Admiral HUM presented a Petition from -cer tain descriptions of Persons in the County of Essex against the proposed measure of Distillation from Sugar. The Child Stealing Bill was read a third time and passed, with an Amendment proposed by the Solici tor General, who thought the words of the Bill in its original form would not affix the penalty on the , stealing of a child for the purpose of using it in begging, or of obtaining a reward for restoring it, or any other purpose of tking it an object of lucre or gain As the Bill originally stood, the penalty at tached to • maliciously stealing, and the legal con streClion of the word malicious, was such, tnat with out such an Amendment as he proposed the cases he alluded to wuuid escape. • Mr. WYNNE, Mr. LUSHINOTON, Mr. Alderman Cosiatt,• and Mr. Stsisorl,' expressed some doubts, whether tfie apprehensions of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman were net beyond what the ease war ranted., as in their . opinion the Courts would con ceive malice in the cases alluded to, but they finally acquiesced in the Amendment. ARMY CLOTHING. Colonel WARDELL' moved, that there be laid ))e -fore the House a Copy of the Letter of the Secretary *of the Treasury to the Secretary at War, dated bch Dec. 1807, relative to the mode of supplying the Army with great coats, together with the,Answer thereto ; and several other Letters on the Same sub je4-:k. He alluded shortly to the great , saving to the public, by supplying great coats to the Army by public contract; and expressed his confidence, that if the same system was extended to the clothing of the army in every department, the saving would be no less than 100,0001. a year. Mr. Hu s xis sow had no obje&ion to the produ6tion of the Papers moved for. It was certainly a fixed prin . - ciple with the Treasury, to have the public supplies furnished by corolla, whenever that could be dune. - But be thought it right to inform the House, that the supply of all other articles ot clothing to the Army, except great coats, was done through the Co lonels of the regiments, and made part of their eino-, Willem. • Without an arrangement compensating. the Colonels for the loss they would sustain- by be ing deprived of that part of their emoluments arising from the clothing, the` supply of the other articles besides great coats could not be made matter 9f open contra& and competition. The Accounts were ordered. Mr: Husiussots brought in a Bill for the Im provement of the Land Revenue of the Crown: — Read a firkt time, and ordered to .be read a second time on Monday. The Duchess of Brunswick's Annuity Bill, and the Military Inquiry Continuance Bill, Were read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Mon day. , • On the motion of Mr. LRTHBRIDGB, the House wont into a Committee; orf Mr. Palmer's Compen-. sition Bill. Mr.-Fuller in the Chair. , • Mr. LETHBRIDGE teoved that 'the Chairman' be dire Bed to move for leave to 'bring in a Bill to se cure tciirMi. Palmer the future enjoyment of his per centage on the net increased revenue of the , Post Office, according to the agreement made with Mr. Pitt in 178 g. In answer to an inquiry from Mr. BANRES, who repeated his general.ohje6tiona to the measure, Mr. Lethbridge said it was not intanclvd that the present motion,, or the Bill to be founded on it; should apply to the arrear due to Mr. Palmer sinet his dismissal troth his office.. He thought the -,near would he. most properly made good to Mr. Palmer by a vote of the House in a Committees of Supply. In answer to another enquiry, front Mr. BANKRa s , Mr. LETHBRIDGE said it would be matter for future consideration from what fund the compensatiou should be. made.. In his own opinion the• Post Office Revenue would, be the proper source from which to take the compensation; that being the depart ment of the revenue benefited . by Mr. Palmer's, ex ertions. • Mr. Bhaxas here took exceptioo to the proposed mode of voting the arrear „ He ithought that oti a vote of such large amount, the other House of Par liament ought to have an opportunity ofpronouncing Its judgment, and cited several periiiiel instances in Which it had been thought right to put pecuniary grants in that shape which would allow such au op, pertunity. A vote of the House of Commons ad mitted of no intervention, tio judgment -of the Lords. He was therefore adverse to voting any part of Mr. PalrOls coaspentation in that shape. He wished to have the whole compensation, arrears as well as future per centage, included in this Bill. The arrears of the pension voted to Lord Like had been included In the bill granting the pension. With a view to the pra&ice of the House, therefore, as - well as to give their rightful power of controui add revision to the. Lords over the whole of the grant, he mobt,ni as an Amendment,' that the wore " Altura" be oinitteci‘' debate contmued ► some titne,- during'which, • we 'iticlormaotf ; 'the. Speaker spoke forabove; twenty ininat.., in favour of the titirekrained cdmpensatioti to Mr.- Palmer. The div?sion.then "took place, when! tIC W fail lilt 1411" IU11111; uui 1.1.4 G Mr, ').lzl;;Es' Amendment . :t4las-lost.by' a majority IVi . ii 3 it) 31. • Whet) strangers were re-admitted into the Gallery, CHANCIILLOR oftlie.kitcumuEa was represctit- . ing the; propriety of accompanying the grata with aotne specifications, ,whiclviwOuld.:cirnit'of , a certain' degree of eontroul in the , Uppier Mr. )loss said the stipulations for service, and the nature of the service, should'be included in the Acl of Parliament as,well as it) the original agreertibnt: flu thought the grant should be made the subjea of a clause in the Appropriation Act. lie adverted to the cases cited by Mr. IL/pukes, in proof of this opi nion. The CHAIRMAN was direded to move for leave.to bring in a_ Bill - according to the original motion of Mr. Lethbridge. The report was received, -and 4 Bill ordered accordingly DISTILLERIgS. Lord. BINNING seeing an Non. Gentleman (Mr. Taylor) in his place, who hadi given notice of 'a mo tion for this night, wiihed to know if ,the rumour was well founded, by which it was generally tinder stood he meant to put otf his motion, in order toac commodate the more pressing consideration of the subjea that had been adjourned from last night. • Mr. TAYLbR, atter some explanation, thoTightit his duty to insist on his right of Winging his motion this night. Lora BINNING then proposed to adjourn the debate on the Report ofthe 'West India Committee to Mon day next. Mr. Postsotwr remonstrated against the Praetice' of turning over one business after another, to nights already occupied by long notices. The consequence I was, that it was impossible to . know what business would or wtould not be discussed on any given night. The business .of the Distilleries was .understOod to have been indispensibly fixed for the day before yes terday, when it did not come on. The Local Mi litia was positively fixed for yesterday, when it was superseded by the 'Distilleries. If the business of which noticehad been given for this night should be put off - for `the further accommodation of the Die tiller}' question, he hoped at 'least that Monday would not be invaded, .in• the absence and without the consent of art Hon. Friend of his (Mr. Lashing ton), who had a motion particularly for that, day, Pn the case Of Sir Home Popham and the ship EtrusCO. The CHANCELLOR of the FACHEQURII said the timation of a disposition to put off the Dardanelles' 1 Question had come from the other side. Ele had, for his own part, declined giving credit to it in the absenee of the Honourable Member who had given. the notice. • With respe& to the alledgod iMpropri ety of putting off one buiiness to a night fixed by notice for another, he thought it by no, means im ' proper. ' It often happened. that .when a full House was coilekled for one business that business'Went off; in such cases it was • favourable to the dispatch of, business it there was another matter for which the House was equally prepared by notice, that could be gone into. • _ _ Mr. TIERNEY avowed that it was he who suggest ed last night that the Hon. Gentleman alight be trosed - to . pot • off the discussion of the Dardanelles Question ibis .day, to accommodate the more nil mediately important - and urgent question that had been debated last night. He thought it, however, but justice to .himself to state, that the accommoda tion was desired by all parties. The question of the Distitterjes comprehended. matters of the greatest public moment, upon which it. was most material to come to B"decisien as speediy as possible, and . that too without disjointing or interruption. It was for the Hon.- Gentleman to consider whether he should give way to these considerations, or persist in the'right which he undoubtedly; had. Mr. Txy.t.oa, notwithstanding all he hid heard, was of, opinion that he ought to go on with. the pro ceeding of which he .had so long given notice. i Mr. Berestord,"Sir J. Newport, Mr., : C. Murray, &c. recommended as speedy a decisiOn as possibla upon the distillery question. Alter some conversa tion the further consider:l6On of the Deport was ' fixed for Monday ; to which day it was ordered, on ; the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,' that the House at its rising should'adjourn. DARDANELLES. Mr, TityLoa rose to Make his promised Motion on the subject of the Expedition to Constantinople,. and'spoke tor nearly two hours, but in so low a tone of voice, and in such .an, indistinct manner,' that' we found it'Utterly impossible to collet any thing but the general tenor of his speech, and that very imperfealy. As far, however, as %V4' could, understand the Bonourable Gentleman, he entered, into an examination of the nature of the Trea ties that had existed between Russia and 'Turkey, and Contended : that the late Administration had, without ii&tt, . and in contradie.tion to true . po licy, inte.. - tertinthe disputes that had Liken place between those two Countries, relative to I he deposi tion of the Hospodars, and the passage or. the .8047 phorus; and - . had plunged 'Great Britain into a war with therthicimap Porte, because' RUssia :had made a demand to which it Was not to be expected that Turkey should accede., The [ion. Gotlemati read a variety of documents in support of his Aurnent, and conauded . by moving four Ite4olutions, the firit of which was as follows---" That his Majesty's Fleet, under the command of sii T. Duckwo'rth, appeared in the vicinity of Constantinople, on the 20th of Fe bruary, 1407, and after having remained there fot ten daN, retired without effeaing any important ob jed." The other Resolutioni went to expresti a sense which..the House entertained of the disgrace that the disastrous result of the Expedition . refleCted on the honour and chara6ief of his Majesty's arms. ' On the first Resolution being put, Mr. T. URZNVILLB expressed the satisfaation which he felt after such repeated delays, in at length finding the motion substantiall- before the House, and in such a shape as to render it tangible. Far was he from complaining of the ihstitutiorr of enquires of this nature., On the contrary, he deemed it. most destrable, that thoSe men who had own_ 'lied pUblic functions should be called upon, tai the race of the House and the Country, to Account for their eon duct. More particularly were he and his colleagues 4ranfied by the institution of the present Went% "u: would enable them to remove any untallour. ante IMpTCS3IOII Vita respea to melt' comma • this affair, , if i=nch impression,l'existed, thoighs' )f diff, ores at a loss t 0 conceive in tut if could have originated. s.AS ell .as he , could ens derstand his Majesty's present Minister% . they,exe preisly disct timed any participation ,in .the t ions of this inquiry, still, howeVer, tint - skink It their duty to consent •to its nod to alloW' of the pro duction of the 'Papers 'on hick it to to . , be fouhded, 'Vli this was right end judicious enosigh. tf he bad any complaint agelinst them, it was, ,that although they had never theinselves asked for, or appeared to warrant . an. inquiry,: they had, re • peatedly-, by insinuation and collateral argutnents, endeavoured to produc'e' a feeling against iii, M s . jesty'..s late Government, which it' was inshoss sible that at that time they could`combat.e fie alluded particularly to the observations of the Right • Flepoprable Secretary of State for the Foreign Deparinent, 'who, in a. moment, certainly not of 'deliberation, bin of violence and impetuosity, had accused the late Adininistiation of con duet, of hiCh the Official documents in his pasties "lion must have convinced him that they ‘vere ie.; • noeent. Tiint Right Hon. Geptlemati had complain ed that his Majesty's late Government; at 'the requi sition of the Court of St. 'Petersburg!), made a diver sion in the South of Europe, With ships without troops, when that reqhisitioh was for both ships and troops. No argument was necessary oil ocea- • sion. ,Let the..Hoese look at the Papers on the table, and they would perceive,.thet so far from the Expedi tion to Constantinople arisingout ofany such reqeisi s tiori froth the Court of St. Petersboth as that alluded' - to, it originated in the negotiatiori that was 'eart;tsd on by Mr. Arbuthnot at Constantinople it elf: did not Mean to follow the Honourable. M'wer of the present . questien at' any great lereb; beceuse,' without meaning any disrespectto him, he did trot think that there was a man in the H2Ouse Who would adopt the line of argtimept pursued by the Honour-. able Gehtleman. The right of interference beta.vesei Russia and Turkey, which Great Britain le3ssessisd s was indisputable. Both the Treaty of lee% and that which followed the Peace 'df Jassy, had fur their objeCt to connea in one bond of onion the three' . countries. BY . theCoovention entered into between. Russia and Turkey, on March 21, 11100, the passage of the Bosphorus, with troops, military stores, &c. was reciprocally secured to each Power. 'When, these s . fore, this Convention was violated on' the part of the - 'Ottoman Porte, was it necessary to point out the policy► 'which • induced the. British GoVerntheut tc maintain the . rights and interests of Russia unjestly attacked) In doing so, the late Administrittien had only followed up, the line of concha& pershed for n long course of years by their predecessors, who had thought' and Justly 'thought, that irwas the Molest of Great Britain to support and eXtend herscon•s• neaion with 'RuSsia. That the Government hos mediately, preceding the last were' uneqeivo!eally of :this opinion, was eridebt by the three docutheniS , to' that effsa upon, the table. Thirty doeuments :instead of three might have Wen laic( , on the: to prove tin* but, doubtless, it was conceived • by his, -Majesty's present Ministers ?that those pro- , dueed 'were amply sufficient. Passing over the de position of the Hospodars, the representations made by Mr. Arbuthnot of the growing influence oC, France in Turkey,E.ce. he ,wohld call the particular ''attisetion of The House to the Note from Sebastiani; the French. Minister, which the Honourable Gen tleinao had said' appeared to him to contain meeh Solid reasoning, arid nothing objectionable. Thet it contained nothing objeaionnble to a French ear,. he did not di obt,but that a Member oldie British - Parlithy: mentshould express himself in such a manner wit h rem .splea to it, was a circumstance that he eeofesed hi 'could not have believed had he not Witnessed it: This • Note was foil of the violence and imolenee which abounded in the numerous compositions .of French diplomacy. The writer &dared that " if hi the • difficult circumstances of the tinies, the Ottonetti 'Porte .did not•ferni the stecisian which her interests .required, he should have ere long to lament her . fate. " He stated that he had received sliest posh., . tive orders from the Emperors that " the Bosphorns shoUld be shtit against all Rosslati ships,,ot war and: ail Ressifin vessels carrying military stores, Sae,'` and that at a time when Sebastiani mast , well known that Russia, had a rizht 'by Treaty to • send what ships she pleased through the Beheihorns. Inn succeeding paragraph of the Note it was ob- . served, " That that passage could trot be opened to' the Russians by the Turks withotit committing an aft of hostility against France, and giving to Napo leon'the Great the right of Marchiug-ArOpps . oVer the territory of Turkey, that he might combat the: Russians on the banks of the Vistula." Was all thii uhobjettionable ? Then followed an intimation that.' 'a declaration of war by France would be the tomes' (science, should the OttoioatoPorte turn a deaf ear , the representations of the French Minister. " Monis' jest)' the Emperor," said he, 4 . s hes a Mergearmy in . Alaatia, assembled . there for the defence of rrixty but unless all ambiguity is removed; arid the &n) 7 ,- ,duet of the 0110111311 Porte proves that she is' not in 'clieed to favour the cause of Russia' and England ; , that "Army will be used for the directly oppos4e pori pe;eT" an immediate and cetegorical answer was.'T-' quired to this • demand. Having said so leech , :ti' this Note, he would now advert to the excellent commentary upon it, contained in Lord dispatches to Mr. Arbuthnot, of the 14th and eoth st. ' Novethbeir ; by which dispatches it ide4t b e ei s i so ros to the House, that the accesation preferred hy the Hon. Gentleman Against the late government, ;est' entertaining a hostile tetning towards Turkey, was , groundless. In the. first of these dispatches, shoot the t 4th of November,' Lord Howick directed that every Oraaieal mode of amicable remoostranee be used -for the purpose of endavouring to recall the Ottoman 'Porte too better line of poliey s .--: Mr. Arbuthnot was instructed in that ,orspatcli from Lord'Howick, to acquaint the Turkish Govern.' tent, that'if they would let the Russian ships'pass; all' appearance of hostility should cease an ,the part ' of Great Britain. The Right Hon. Gentleman tieri proceeded to: that Mr. Arbuthnot had writ- ten to Lord Collingwood and Lord Howick, statue'* bow desirable it was to send a force. to the Dardanelles' to support his rregociation with the Porte: Louis had-in consequence been dispatched with three sal Of the line by Lord Collinewood, sud the imel* ligence of that 'proceeding' hati ' been received in t! country at the time whet' his Majesty's late' Mints. ters were coosidering the propriety of senthng a na.: vat force to that quarter. alley instantly'apprevest